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Call for Proposals – Connecting Penn Research to Communities
The Community Engagement and Research (CEAR) Core of the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics (ITMAT) at the University of Pennsylvania is sponsoring a pilot grant program to fund small-scale and developmental research with public and community health...
Details for Community Driven Research Day 2023
Community-Driven Research Day (CDRD) is a program that encourages collaboration between researchers and community-based organizations (CBOs)/community groups that have research questions they are interested in answering. Find a review of Community Driven Research Day...
Integrating Self-Management Education with Cancer Survivorship Care
Pediatric Blood & Cancer published a study funded through UPenn Prevention Research Center. “Acceptability and feasibility of survivorship care plans and an accompanying mobile health intervention for adolescent and young adult survivors of childhood cancer.”
A review of the effects of UV filters on the environment and human health
The National Academies presented a public release webinar of a new report on Tuesday, August 9 from 1:00pm to 2:00pm EDT. The report, Review of Fate, Exposure, and Effects of Sunscreens in Aquatic Environments and Implications for Sunscreen Usage and Human Health,...
Penn Medicine Nurses Week – Community Day, May 14
In celebration of Nurses Week, HUP Engagement Team is planning a Community Day at Malcolm X Park where nurses can meet our community where they live and play and where they can play a role in sharing health education and awareness. Save the date for this outdoor event...
Call for Proposals: Connecting Penn Research to Communities
The Community Engagement and Research (CEAR) Core of the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) at the University of Pennsylvania is making pilot grant funding available for research with public and community health relevance. We are especially interested in...
2022 Community Driven Research Day – January 27
Community-Driven Research Day (CDRD) encourages collaborations between researchers and community-based organizations (CBOs) and community groups who have research questions that they are interested in answering, specifically in ways that address social determinants of...
Two UPenn PRC investigators receive Penn’s Awards of Excellence for mentorship
Leadership recognized On October 26, 2021, the dean of the Perelman School of Medicine, announced the recipients of the 2021 Awards of Excellence. J. Larry Jameson, MD, PhD writes, "The distinguished awardees exemplify our profession's highest values of scholarship,...
Making progress in the area of food insecurity & nutrition environments
On Tuesday, September 21, 2021, UPenn PRC director, Karen Glanz, PhD, MPH, co-chaired an NIH (trans-NIH) workshop called Food Insecurity, Neighborhood Food Environment, and Nutrition Health Disparities: State of the Science. It was presented virtually for three days,...
Healthy Weigh Study Results
What strategy works better for weight loss in overweight employees? Financial incentives Environment change strategies A combination of the two, On-your-own weight-loss efforts Drs. Karen Glanz and Kevin Volpp, along with the team at the UPenn PRC, found that...